I need one post to be the featured post (not necessarily the latest one) so set it up with the short code in a full-width grid block and set the post count to “1” and marked the featured post as “sticky”. It shows up all right – but so does the NEXT most recent post. Someone noted this issue in the WP Show Posts plugin support threads 18 months ago and Tom noted that it sounded like a bug. Seems it’s still there. Thought maybe I could outwit it and tried putting the post count to zero, but it didn’t like that (showed the default 10 instead!)
Any ideas, short of manipulating the posting dates to not have to use “sticky” posts?
https://muskokastyle.com/test1 – top post is sticky, second one is the most recent one and shouldn’t be there.